These aren't advertised "private lenders" our goal is to bring them on board to fund rehabs that we will have going on in the beginning of the year.

While it's hard to look forward and see the future, and easy to look back and see the past, it's also true that you have to have good reasons for thinking that a large gain is going to be followed by more large gains, and I don't know that the national corporate scene justifies that kind of sanguineness.

. , I think you're on board with a lot of people on the time management/estimating, expense estimating (how often are we all on time AND budget?)

Some areas are 90% boarded up. yet is also has some very nice areas and areas in the middle.Despite the blight there seems to be plenty of demand for good housing.

On days when you have less time, you probably increase the intensity.)I balance a full-time job, a home life (also with two kids), a second career as a writer doing 2-3 professional projects per year, and other personal responsibilities (charity board work, political activism, etc.).As a result, I don't get into time-intensive real estate deals.

I figured $5K in Baltimore would be a rotting board-up with the roof missing along a block of many other properties just like it.

The second bedroom also had the window busted out for about a year (the city boarded it up after a year) and was exposed to a lot of water damage.

Make sure your lender is on board and has done some FHA loans on HUD properties using the $100 option.

Welcome to BP Nation Lee, do come and attend some of our local RE meetings.

., some good martini bars (oak and olive) moving into downtown bringing the higher end clients, but still boarded up buildings here and there....